Document, 14 April 1814.

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Document, 14 April 1814.

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The collection contains a legal document that describes the indentured servitude of a black woman named Sela to Thomas Hargis for the term of twenty years. Sela had previously been held by Hargis as his slave in Kentucky. This is a handwritten copy of the original created and signed by the county clerk of Knox County, Indiana, five years after the indenture was set forth in 1809.

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Hargis, Thomas

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Article IV of the Northwest Ordinance made it impossible for slavery to exist legally in the new territories. In 1805, the newly-elected Indiana territorial legislature passed an act (Indenture, 1805) concerning Negroes and Mulattoes who had been brought into the territory. A slave would become the indentured servant of the owner or be sent back to the slave state from which they came. The Indenture Act is utilized in the document in this collection. Sela , a thirty-three year old black woman, i...